REAL LIFE REAL WORLD Activity: Air Traffic Control
In this lesson, students will model and solve air traffic control problems with geometry software. The Cabri Jr. application will be used to construct a model of the problem situation and concepts from trigonometry and proportions are then applied to find the solution.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/real-life-real-world-activity-air-traffic-control
Graphing Systems at the Races
This activity involves solving a system of equations created from a problem I wrote about a greyhound racing to catch a toy rabbit on a mechanical arm. The ending activity involves solving a similar system, only involving another problem I wrote based on the end of a NASCAR race.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/graphing-systems-at-the-races
Triangle in the Matrix
Students represent a triangle with a matrix and use the determinant to find the area of three given triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-in-the-matrix_1
How Many Solutions
Use the Inequality application to solve linear programming problems.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/how-many-solutions
Ain't No River Wide Enough
Students simulate the process a surveyor would use to measure the width of a river by measuring length on one side of the river and angles formed by various reference points.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/aint-no-river-wide-enough
Stretching the Quads
Students stretch and translate the parabola given by y = x2 and determine the effects on the equation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/stretching-the-quads
Hot Air Balloon
Using a dynamic manipulative, students will have a visual for adding and subtracting integers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hot-air-balloon_1
Hot Wheel Lab
In this activity, students will gather data that compares the slope of a hot wheel ramp to the distance the car travels. They will then graph, draw a line of best fit and write an equation for their data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hot-wheel-lab
Exploring Vertical Asymptotes- 84
This lesson involves observing how changing the values in a rational function affects the continuity of the graph of the function.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/exploring-vertical-asymptotes_1
Dilations with Matrices
Students use matrices to perform dilations centered at the origin of triangles. Students will explore the effect of the scale factor on the size relationship between the preimage and image of a polygon.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/dilations-with-matrices
Area of Rectangles with Fixed Perimeter
The students will construct several rectangles with different dimensions, all having the same perimeter. The area of each rectangle is then computed and plotted against the width of each rectangle. The students will discover that the area is a quadratic function of the width. They will also dis...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/area-of-rectangles-with-fixed-perimeter
Multiplicity of Zeros of Functions
In this activity for the TI-84 Plus CE Family, students will utilize graphs and equations of polynomial functions to determine the zeros of the functions and whether the functions cross the x-axis or is tangent to the x-axis at the zeros.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/multiplicity-of-zeros-of-functions_1
Binomial Probabilities
Students simulate rolling a die and keeping track of the numbers of successes and failures by using the randBin command.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/binomial-probabilities
Asymptotes and Zeros of Rational Functions
In this activity, students relate the graph of a rational function to the graphs of the polynomial functions of its numerator and denominator. Students graph these polynomials one at a time and identify their y-intercepts and zeros.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/asymptotes-and-zeros-of-rational-functions
Around the Vertex in 80 Days
Students move a quadratic function in the coordinate plane to specific points to observe how the vertex form of the equation changes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/around-the-vertex-in-80-days_1
Arithmetic Sequences & Series
Students use formulas to find the differences of the consecutive terms, plot a scatter plot of each sequence, and determine that sequences with common differences (called arithmetic sequences) have scatter plots whose points form a straight line.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arithmetic-sequences--series_1
Modeling: Exploring Medical Tests Results
In this TI-84 activity, students investigate ideas that have appeared in many sources related to the recent pandemic. They will become familiar with terms such as false positives and false negatives, prevalence, sensitivity and specificity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling@-exploring-medical-tests_84
Ellipses with center at (h, k)
Students will put the equations of an ellipse with center at (h, k) in standard form. Identify the center, vertices, co-vertices, foci, length of diamter axis, and length of the minor diameter. They will graph the ellipses.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ellipses-with-center-at-h-k
Introduction to Absolute Value
Students numerically explore absolute values using the calculator, plot points to graph y = |x|, and use the Transform application to perform transformations with absolute value functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/introduction-to-absolute-value_1
Introducing Families of Functions
Students will be able to identify important characteristics of specific function families. This activity focuses on linear and quadratic functions, but can be easily adapted to work with any family.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/introducing-families-of-functions
Intersecting the Solution
Students will learn to solve systems of equations graphically and understand the relationship between the algebraic and graphical solutions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/intersecting-the-solution
Radical Transformations
Students will use the Transformational Graphing application to examine how the square root function is transformed on the coordinate plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/radical-transformations
Modeling Data
Students graph data modeling exponential and logarithmic growth and find equations representing the data.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/modeling-data
Trig Ratios - IB
In this activity, students will use Cabri™ Jr. to discover the relationship between the trigonometric functions: sine, cosine and tangent and the side length ratios of a right triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/trig-ratios
Ready, Set... Solve!
In this coding activity for the TI-84 Plus CE Python, students will create a fast-paced game to help practice solving multi-step equations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ready-set-solve_84